I'm bored by films that revolve around a trick. I kind of know if a film is right for me; all the most important decisions are made intuitively.

I was lucky with my first film because it had Warhol in it. That was the selling point.

I grew up interested in the underside of Hollywood, which I think David Lynch does really well.

It's hard when your first thing is something everyone loves. Actually, that never happened to me. I was lucky that my first film, which is actually the best reviewed of all my films, didn't have that success.

Bettie Page was the first person to do bondage as fashion, because for her it really was all about dressing up.

I just don't think I'm an ideological filmmaker in any way. I don't know how anyone could see anything I've done and see that.

In my early thirties I was working in television as a researcher. I was really stuck for a period of five years. I got to TV when I was thirty. I hated being a music writer, and kept wondering why I couldn't be doing the exciting things that my friends were doing in television.